Can´t believe what I did !
Wednesday 23rd April, 2008Had a busy day today, which meant I had
no time whatsoever to play with the spanking new half tera Time Capsule
which came with the post this morning.
I had to fork over another 300 to el Jobso, because using the Time Machine utility to back up some data on my home half tera drive would require reformatting it, i.e. finding somewhere else o put the 150-odd gig of stuff I only have there.
Anyway, I could only start looking into it after the last appointment of the day, i.e. 7:30PM meaning I was ready to invest perhaps 20 minutes max. before giving up and going home.
To put things in perspective, I was not trying to perform a completely trivial operation; in no special order the task was:
1. install and configure the machine itself
2. install and configure the 802.11n wireless network, replacing the existing 11g one and sharing Internet access
3. connect Macs and PCs to the wireless network
4. connect the monster printer on my desk to the TC (which doubles as a printer hub)
5. make the printer available to the Macs AND to PCs (and specifically deinstalling it as a BT printer and reinstalling it as a wireless network printer)
6. use Time Machine to back up my Mac
7. back up (manually ?) Marcello's Mac
The item is an Apple classic white box, no switches or buttons; just plug it in and configure it using the Airport Utility that comes on CD.
Items 1 to 3 whizzed away in no time with only perfunctory glimpses to the little manual. At one point the utility got stuck because the replacement on the existing network meant one the default setting was not correct, but the instructions were foolproof ("Please change this setting to 'Bridged', you fool!)
Item 4 was a little more (physically) challenging, because the damn thing weighs like a tank and we had to move it across the corridor.
Item 5 happened on its own, you press "-" and the BT printer disappears, press "+" and find the new printer; then, just to be sure, you delete the printer from the BT panel.
We stopped at item 6, because I suspect the first backup may require a little more time.
From start to finish in about 15 minutes, I still don't believe it...
I had to fork over another 300 to el Jobso, because using the Time Machine utility to back up some data on my home half tera drive would require reformatting it, i.e. finding somewhere else o put the 150-odd gig of stuff I only have there.
Anyway, I could only start looking into it after the last appointment of the day, i.e. 7:30PM meaning I was ready to invest perhaps 20 minutes max. before giving up and going home.
To put things in perspective, I was not trying to perform a completely trivial operation; in no special order the task was:
1. install and configure the machine itself
2. install and configure the 802.11n wireless network, replacing the existing 11g one and sharing Internet access
3. connect Macs and PCs to the wireless network
4. connect the monster printer on my desk to the TC (which doubles as a printer hub)
5. make the printer available to the Macs AND to PCs (and specifically deinstalling it as a BT printer and reinstalling it as a wireless network printer)
6. use Time Machine to back up my Mac
7. back up (manually ?) Marcello's Mac
The item is an Apple classic white box, no switches or buttons; just plug it in and configure it using the Airport Utility that comes on CD.
Items 1 to 3 whizzed away in no time with only perfunctory glimpses to the little manual. At one point the utility got stuck because the replacement on the existing network meant one the default setting was not correct, but the instructions were foolproof ("Please change this setting to 'Bridged', you fool!)
Item 4 was a little more (physically) challenging, because the damn thing weighs like a tank and we had to move it across the corridor.
Item 5 happened on its own, you press "-" and the BT printer disappears, press "+" and find the new printer; then, just to be sure, you delete the printer from the BT panel.
We stopped at item 6, because I suspect the first backup may require a little more time.
From start to finish in about 15 minutes, I still don't believe it...
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